First post. Hello from Canada

[LanE30]

Hey everyone. Lane here from Calgary Alberta. Great site,ton of great info on here. I'd love to see it grow as time goes on.
A bit about my current project. Im about a week or so from firing my HX 50 equipped Toyota 7mgte, really stoked to get this thing working as I've been slowly putting it together for about 5 years!
... Also should mention this 7m is in a fully prepped BMW E30. Hopefully I'll be able to add some viable info in the near future,for now just wish me luch that it starts at all, lol.

[92CXyD]

Welcome and good luck.

[Turbo_B]

Sweet project man. That car should move pretty nicely.

Hate to be "that guy", but do you have any pictures of the car you could share?

[LanE30]

Ya sure, I haven't taken any recent pics but heres a few to give an idea.
from the start,a stripped out 85 318i that formerly had a stroker turbo m10 4 banger. It was my dd for several years.



7mge used for mockup


Custom front coilovers using GC coils,camber plates,Koni race inserts. The rest uses E36 spindles with 5 lug swap and m3 brakes,e36 rack as well as tubular DTM type control arms.  The rear is z3 trailing arms and brakes, poly bushings, koni shocks. 


I stitch weled as much as I could, added a full cage, fabbed up new rear shock towers and moved the mounting inboard for tire clearance.


Here's the engine somewhat in the car minus wiring. I'm using a custom harness with MS2 v3 and extra code. I also had to build an intake to clear the brake booster.


So there ya have it in a nutshell. Still a few things to do before it drives but right now im concetrating on getting it started. 

[Turbo_B]

Very nice. I have a MS1 board 3 in my MGB. MS can make a car run pretty nicely. Made a post in the HX25 section on my car.

[LanE30]

Thanks man. Those are some impressive gains from your MG.
Yeah megasquirt seems to be the way to go these days,there's a ton of guys using it now so it kinda takes the mystery out of setting a car up. I've got a grasp of things and some good maps that hopefully make it run decent. Also looking at trying this new tuning program "tunerstudio". It's supposed to make tuning a lot easier. Heard of it anyone?

[Turbo_B]

I have tuner studio on my Ubuntu tuning laptop. Its great!

Used megatune for several years so it took some getting used to.

I would recommend TunerStudio over megatune though- not to mention the guy who developed the software is VERY helpful if you have trouble.

[92CXyD]

Awesome picts.

I love the Toyota over engineered motors. I hope you plan on using 20w50 with that 7m motor.

What is this tunerstudio?

[LanE30]

Thanks and yeah toyota builds great engines, especially their inline 6's. All my friends are toyota fans and I've been wanting a Supra since I was a teenager.
As for oil, for now I put 15w 40 gas engine oil in to break it in, probably switch to syn after a few hours of run time.
About Tunerstudio, it's a relatively new tuning program for Megasquirt to replace megatune. Everything I've heard about it is good and it supposed to be a lot easier to use.